In the world of business communications, SIP Trunking was one of the strongest trends in 2009. For both businesses and hosted providers, the basic rationale is evident, particularly in a weak economy where everyone is looking for ways to cut costs. Unless you’re an incumbent telco who likes the status quo, SIP Trunking makes the value proposition of IP telephony stronger by reducing telecom costs in a few basic ways. Aside from allowing even more voice traffic to be routed off the PSTN, SIP Trunking reduces the need for costly PRIs and, in some cases, can eliminate them altogether.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
VoIP 2010: Simplification through Integration
In addition to the product trends the communications industry has experienced over the past year – all of which will be on display in the exhibit hall and topics of conference sessions atITEXPO ( News - Alert) East in Miami – there has been a significant shift towards integration of products and services between vendors as they seek to provide more complete solution sets for their resellers and end users.
The idea is to provide them the very luxury today’s communications solutions are designed to provide for end users – the ability to focus on their core businesses, in this case, selling product. Naturally, they are able to leverage the latest feature and product enhancements, from mobility to HD and more, but by providing a pre-integrated set of solutions, driven by the adoption of common standards, like SIP, the vendor community effectively simplifies the entire sales process, benefitting the entire value chain.
The idea is to provide them the very luxury today’s communications solutions are designed to provide for end users – the ability to focus on their core businesses, in this case, selling product. Naturally, they are able to leverage the latest feature and product enhancements, from mobility to HD and more, but by providing a pre-integrated set of solutions, driven by the adoption of common standards, like SIP, the vendor community effectively simplifies the entire sales process, benefitting the entire value chain.
Citrix Online Now Offers Convenient Conferencing Shopping
Organizations and their managers looking for alternatives to increasingly wretched, expensive, and productivity-killing and environment-degrading business travel for their staff no longer have to spend countless hair-pulling hours shopping around for options.
Citrix Online, the Web conferencing division of Citrix Systems (News - Alert) now offers a range of audio conferencing services along with its Web conferencing suite. Business of all sizes can now experience a variety of high definition audio and Web conferencing services together. With this comprehensive offering, customers benefit from enhanced convenience, performance and affordability.
Citrix Online, the Web conferencing division of Citrix Systems (News - Alert) now offers a range of audio conferencing services along with its Web conferencing suite. Business of all sizes can now experience a variety of high definition audio and Web conferencing services together. With this comprehensive offering, customers benefit from enhanced convenience, performance and affordability.
Orange Business Services Optimizes Microsoft Unified Communications Delivery
Orange Business Services has announced the expansion of its consulting and integration services for delivering Microsoft (News - Alert) Unified Communications.
The company provides customers with consulting services whether integrated with IP telephony or as a stand-alone Microsoft solution.Orange Business Services ( News - Alert) will assess business and technical requirements for designing and implementing Microsoft-based unified communications solutions.
The Microsoft-based unified communication solutions can be integrated within the customer’s IT and real-time services such as enterprise telephony, mobility, voice, video and conferencing.
The major benefits offered by Microsoft-based unified communication solutions include greater collaboration within and outside the company, reduces voice costs, pricing, reduced travel and better workflow thereby increasing worker productivity. Orange can customize solutions according to the requirements of the client while integrating on- premise or managed and hosted data center with UC as a service or a hybrid solution.
The company provides customers with consulting services whether integrated with IP telephony or as a stand-alone Microsoft solution.Orange Business Services ( News - Alert) will assess business and technical requirements for designing and implementing Microsoft-based unified communications solutions.
The Microsoft-based unified communication solutions can be integrated within the customer’s IT and real-time services such as enterprise telephony, mobility, voice, video and conferencing.
The major benefits offered by Microsoft-based unified communication solutions include greater collaboration within and outside the company, reduces voice costs, pricing, reduced travel and better workflow thereby increasing worker productivity. Orange can customize solutions according to the requirements of the client while integrating on- premise or managed and hosted data center with UC as a service or a hybrid solution.
Avaya, Cisco Contribute to Unified Communications Market Growth in Third Quarter: Report
In the recently released Group Enterprise Telephony Quarterly Report, Dell'Oro Group reported that the Unified Communications (News - Alert) market grew in the third quarter of 2009. More than 70 percent of the reported vendors contributed to the market’s quarterly growth.
The top two Unified Communications vendors, Avaya and Cisco, have each posted double digit revenue gains over the second quarter of 2009. According to Alan Weckel, Director at Dell’ (News - Alert)Oro Group, the second half of the year is typically stronger for the Enterprise Voice market, and the third quarter of this year was no exception for the Unified Communications segment.
The top two Unified Communications vendors, Avaya and Cisco, have each posted double digit revenue gains over the second quarter of 2009. According to Alan Weckel, Director at Dell’ (News - Alert)Oro Group, the second half of the year is typically stronger for the Enterprise Voice market, and the third quarter of this year was no exception for the Unified Communications segment.
Bringing VoIP to Social Networking with IVR Technologies' Talking SIP
Social networking Web sites have become very popular in the past few years. For the most part, these sites are geared toward consumers rather than business users. And, while most let people stay in touch using text-based communications, voice capabilities to date has not been a major focus in the social networking market. But, this is changing.
In relatively recent research, The Yankee Group (News - Alert) predicted that subscribers to pure-play VoIP services will reach 6.4 million by the end of 2011 (up from about 2.8 million at year-end 2006). Meanwhile, Nielsen/Netratings estimated that use of social networking sites is experiencing almost 50 percent growth annually. Tie these two together, and it seems obvious that voice integrated with social networking is a huge market opportunity.
In relatively recent research, The Yankee Group (News - Alert) predicted that subscribers to pure-play VoIP services will reach 6.4 million by the end of 2011 (up from about 2.8 million at year-end 2006). Meanwhile, Nielsen/Netratings estimated that use of social networking sites is experiencing almost 50 percent growth annually. Tie these two together, and it seems obvious that voice integrated with social networking is a huge market opportunity.
A Look Ahead at 2010
Wireless Internet - with the increasing use of handheld smart phones, wireless Internet usage will soar and with it will come increased congestion, reliability issues and eventually usage fees. The "all you can use" wireless Internet is going to get expensive.
Apple will end exclusive arrangement with AT&T - with competition from Google Android (the operating software for the "Droid") and ever increasing network congestion and performance issues on the AT&T network (see above), Apple will be forced to finally end their exclusive relationship and expand to other carriers. At first to other GSM carriers (T-Mobile) and then CDMA carriers (like Verizon and Sprint). However, an iPhone for CDMA networks requires a different radio in the iPhone which means there will end up being two different phones and users will never be able to jump from GSM to CDMA carriers without buying a new phone.
Apple will end exclusive arrangement with AT&T - with competition from Google Android (the operating software for the "Droid") and ever increasing network congestion and performance issues on the AT&T network (see above), Apple will be forced to finally end their exclusive relationship and expand to other carriers. At first to other GSM carriers (T-Mobile) and then CDMA carriers (like Verizon and Sprint). However, an iPhone for CDMA networks requires a different radio in the iPhone which means there will end up being two different phones and users will never be able to jump from GSM to CDMA carriers without buying a new phone.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
10 years, how digital technology will change?
10 years, the world of technology has been dominated by the big power of Google and social networks, the surprising resurgence of Apple as well as a decrease gradually from Microsoft and Yahoo. So the world of technology will change how the next 10 years?
It's hard to believe the first decades have occurred largely as predicted by technology experts from 10 years ago. Concerns about the Y2K problem likely to happen yesterday when the world experienced breathing phào relief fluctuations first century and this continued to worry about people completely unfamiliar , once the details of our life on the social networking site Twitter or Facebook. Worry serial worry but what continues in the next 10 years. Many technology experts wonder that, in 10 years, whether Google would still dominate the field of Web? Microsoft will still exist? It is possible and here are the predictions that the humor but not without basis for the technology world for 10 years.
Social networking boom strength:
It's hard to believe the first decades have occurred largely as predicted by technology experts from 10 years ago. Concerns about the Y2K problem likely to happen yesterday when the world experienced breathing phào relief fluctuations first century and this continued to worry about people completely unfamiliar , once the details of our life on the social networking site Twitter or Facebook. Worry serial worry but what continues in the next 10 years. Many technology experts wonder that, in 10 years, whether Google would still dominate the field of Web? Microsoft will still exist? It is possible and here are the predictions that the humor but not without basis for the technology world for 10 years.
Social networking boom strength:
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
SIP Trunking 2.0 - The Service Provider Perspective
In the world of business communications, SIP Trunking was one of the strongest trends in 2009. For both businesses and hosted providers, the basic rationale is evident, particularly in a weak economy where everyone is looking for ways to cut costs. Unless you’re an incumbent telco who likes the status quo, SIP Trunking makes the value proposition of IP telephony stronger by reducing telecom costs in a few basic ways. Aside from allowing even more voice traffic to be routed off the PSTN, SIP Trunking reduces the need for costly PRIs and, in some cases, can eliminate them altogether.
These benefits are tangible, and in many cases are reason enough to adopt SIP Trunking. However, they essentially replicate TDM services, and beyond the cost savings, offer little in the way of sustainable competitive advantage. In our view, this is SIP Trunking 1.0 – cost effective, but short on innovation that enables differentiation. With SIP Trunking becoming more mainstream now, we see the market being poised to go beyond this in 2010. SIP Trunking 2.0 speaks to the fuller potential of end-to-end IP, which builds on voice, but extends to other modes such as video, mobility, conferencing, presence and high definition – both audio and video.
These benefits are tangible, and in many cases are reason enough to adopt SIP Trunking. However, they essentially replicate TDM services, and beyond the cost savings, offer little in the way of sustainable competitive advantage. In our view, this is SIP Trunking 1.0 – cost effective, but short on innovation that enables differentiation. With SIP Trunking becoming more mainstream now, we see the market being poised to go beyond this in 2010. SIP Trunking 2.0 speaks to the fuller potential of end-to-end IP, which builds on voice, but extends to other modes such as video, mobility, conferencing, presence and high definition – both audio and video.
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